[2] The attacker was named as Jamel Gorchene, a 36-year-old Tunisian man who arrived in France illegally in 2009 who was not known to security services.

[3] According to journalist Nicolas Beau, since 2009 Jamel Gorchene had been the subject of slow but progressive radicalization which had escaped the notice of government surveillance agencies.

She was born 1st of February 1972 in Coutances, Normandy, and raised in Montmartin-sur-Mer in the Manche Department before moving to Saint-léger-en-Yvelines.

[7] A ceremony held in Rambouillet 26 April to commemorate Monfermé was attended by government ministers, her husband and two daughters, and hundreds of French mourners.

National Rally leader Marine Le Pen criticised the decision to grant French residency to an illegal immigrant and advocated for their deportation.